"It’s no surprise that today’s college students are busy. Many are working full-time jobs and raising kids while studying and attending classes. When your schedule’s this crammed, you’ll gladly welcome a way to make life more efficient, entertaining or even a bit less expensive!Do you need an extra boost of organization in your life? A way to budget your money better? Believe it or not, your mobile device could host a variety of apps to help you tackle your daily to-dos.We put together a list of 50 smartphone apps for college students to help add some efficiency in your life so you don’t have to sweat the small stuff. Keep reading for smoother sailing ahead!"Read Article: http://www.rasmussen.edu/student-life/blogs/college-life/50-smartphone-apps-for-college-students/

Every parent is concerned about what their children are exposed to online. Here is a review by Hongkiat of 8 apps that help control what your children access on Android devices.

"These days, there is no stopping a child from growing up without the influence of tech gadgets, online content, and the Internet in general. Being a parent is already a tough enough task, but shying away from the topic or completely shutting out technology from your children’s lives isn’t going to help.What you can do however, is to have more control over what they are exposed to while on their gadgets, and this post will try to help you with that, particularly on Android."

If you have coding and programming knowledge you can create a smart phone app. This article gives information on how to begin programming your own smartphone app.“As the popularity of the smart phone rises, so does the popularity of smart phone applications. Anyone with coding and programming knowledge can make smart phone apps for any platform, from games and entertainment apps to those designed for educational or productivity purposes. Creating a smart phone app may require registration depending on the platform you choose, as well as software and SDK (software development kit) downloads, for you to code, develop and test your application.”Read Article:https://techwalla.com/content/make-smartphone-apps

This article lists AndroidPITs favorite app in almost every conceivable category, including a camera app.

"Searching for the best Android apps is daunting. Whether you need a great weather app or a new browser, there are always dozens available. Here at AndroidPIT, we’ve spent hours curating the top Android apps for every purpose, and compiled them into one list. Here are the best Android apps of 2016, which now includes our current favorite productivity and job search apps."

“Cloud storage comes in all shapes and forms. Direct comparison between providers is often difficult because they focus on different aspects of the service. Often people will base their decision on the amount of free storage available. However, this is only one element that you might want to consider. Most solutions will include a degree of free storage, though if you are backing up photos and media this can run out quickly. It’s therefore worth looking ahead to see how much you will have to pay, and how much space it will get you. Aside from that, you should look at what operating systems are supported, and whether you will be able to back up and use files from more than one machine – if you are working on documents at home as well as in the office, for example, this may be important.”Read Entire Article: http://cloudnewsdaily.com/cloud-storage/

"Glassmaker Corning just unveiled its newest version of Gorilla Glass, the chemically strengthened super glass that dozens of consumer electronics makers use in their devices.Called Gorilla Glass 5, the new glass was formulated to improve drop performance from gadgets that are dropped onto rough surfaces from certain heights — specifically, waist height to shoulder height. Selfie-fumblers rejoice: Corning says Gorilla Glass 5 survives up to 80 percent of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters."

NOT long ago, many parents wondered at what age they should give their child full access to the car keys. Nowadays, parents face a trickier question: At what age should a child own a smartphone?The smartphone, after all, is the key to unfettered access to the internet and the many benefits and dangers that come with it. But unlike driving a car, which is legal in some states starting at the age of 16, there is no legal guideline for a parent to determine when a child may be ready for a smartphone.​

"There are many note-taking apps out in the market for smartphones. Most of them have plenty of great features to better organize your notes and a lot of them work on multiple platforms allowing you to sync and take your notes wherever you go."

​“The smartphone of today can take great daylight shots, and even handle night photography if it was produced relatively recently. It can hook up to a multitude of smart gadgets that range from speakers and smart set-top boxes, down to home automation gizmos. Its screen has so many pixels on it, providing an image so sharp, that it puts even your living room TV to shame. And processing power? A flagship today has the computational power of your old laptop, if not more. And yet, its battery life just blows. And this is increasingly becoming a priority for buyers, who are starting to understand that even older hardware in other areas has long crossed the sanitary minimum line and offers more than ‘just okay’ performance. The longer this continues to be the case, the more the battery life of any given smartphone will be a differentiating factor and a pronounced competitive advantage. Manufacturers know that, which is why we’re all bombarded with marketing messages relating to resilience.”

University of Utah School of Computing professor Sneha Kumar Kasera and his team of researchers are tasked with creating a crowdsourcing system that allows cellphone and laptop users to help detect and locate someone who is stealing bandwidth on radio frequency waves. The team has received a three-year, $1-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to devise the system to help tighten security of the nation's radio spectrum, a valuable resource used for satellite communication and for commercial, public safety and military applications. Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering